Machine Gun Etiquette

Infobox Album | Name = Machine Gun Etiquette
Type = Album
Artist = The Damned


Released = November 1979
Recorded = Utopia Studios, Chalk Farm Studios, Sound-Suite Recording, Workhouse Studios and SGS Recording Studios (London)
(March - May 1979)
Sound-Suite Recording, Workhouse Studios and Wessex Studios (London)
(July - August 1979)
Genre = Punk rock
Pop rock
Psychedelic rock
Length = 35:28
Label = Chiswick Records
Producer = The Damned,
Roger Armstrong
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:q2jb7i6jg7dr~T1 link]
Last album = "Music for Pleasure"
(1977)
This album = "Machine Gun Etiquette"
(1979)
Next album = "The Black Album"
(1980)

"Machine Gun Etiquette" is the third album by the British punk band the Damned. They released it in November 1979. The album was the group's first since reforming with Dave Vanian on vocals, Captain Sensible on lead guitar, Rat Scabies on drums and Algy Ward on bass. Machine Gun Etiquette saw the band become more experimental; without Brian James, the song-writing was more democratic, resulting in a blend of punk, psychedelic rock and pop styles.

Track listing

# "Love Song" – 2:21
# "Machine Gun Etiquette" – 1:48
# "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" – 3:42
# "Melody Lee" – 2:07
# "Anti-Pope" – 3:21
# "These Hands" – 2:03
# "Plan 9 Channel 7" – 5:08
# "Noise, Noise, Noise" – 3:10
# "Looking At You" – 5:08
# "Liar" – 2:44
# "Smash It Up (Part 1)" – 1:59
# "Smash It Up (Part 2)" – 2:53

CD reissue bonus tracks

#

"Ballroom Blitz" – 3:30
# "Suicide" – 3:14
# "Rabid (Over You)" – 3:41
# "White Rabbit" [Extended Version] – 5:13

25th Anniversary Edition CD

# "Love Song" – 2:21
# "Machine Gun Etiquette" – 1:48
# "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" – 3:42
# "Melody Lee" – 2:07
# "Anti-Pope" – 3:21
# "These Hands" – 2:03
# "Plan 9 Channel 7" – 5:08
# "Noise, Noise, Noise" – 3:10
# "Looking At You" – 5:08
# "Liar" – 2:44
# "Smash It Up (Parts 1 & 2)" – 5:13
# "Love Song" [Ed Hollis version] - 2:02
# "Noise, Noise, Noise" [Ed Hollis version] - 3:25
# "Suicide" - 3:17
# "Smash It Up (Part 2)" - 2:56
# "Smash It Up (Part 4)" - 1:57
# "Burglar" - 3:33
# "I Just Can't be Happy Today" [DJ edit] - 3:00
# "Ballroom Blitz" - 3:28
# "Turkey Song" - 4:04
# "Plan 9, Channel 7" [Video Clip] - 6:18

Band

*Dave Vanian - Vocals
*Captain Sensible - Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals
*Rat Scabies - Drums, Vocals
*Algy Ward - Bass, Vocals

Trivia

The original vinyl's lead-out groove contained a sound clip ("Nibbled to death by an okapi") that was intended to loop indefinitely until the listener removed the needle from the vinyl (like the lead-out groove on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band). The sound clip was a line from the BBC Radio series "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", spoken by Peter Jones, about the fate of Arthur Dent's brotherFact|date=November 2007.

The Japanese band, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, based their name on a mispronunciation of Machine Gun Etiquette.

The album is mentioned in the NOFX song "We Got Two Jealous Agains" from the album The War on Errorism.